Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
10 best books like Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (Bron Taylor): Possession, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, The Sea, The Sea, When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry, The Temple of My Familiar, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It, Tales of Mystery and Madness
| Author | A.S. Byatt |
| ISBN | 0679735909 |
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from...
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1590303164 |
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it...
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
| Author | Carlos Castaneda |
| ISBN | 0671227424 |
You may find this book has a lot of chaff on how they prepare peyote and other drugs, mundane descriptions in diary... yet when you less expect it, they hit you with a boulder of wisdom that leaves you freezed.
There is ONE core idea in the book that makes the price tag disappear. You cannot pay for...
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor both professionally and personally, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung...
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
| Author | Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson |
| ISBN | 0385314280 |
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.
The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning...
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
| Author | Bryan Sykes |
| ISBN | 0393020185 |
One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix—a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come.
In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine...
The Temple of My Familiar
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0753819481 |
A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.
It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come. Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great...
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0553373153 |
I fell in love with Natalie Goldberg when I first read her book Writing Down the Bones in college. This memoir of finding her zen teacher and learning what he was trying to teach her is beautifully written. I didn't always relate to her, because she had the freedom to quit jobs, leave the world behind, and...
Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
| Author | Dr. Gabor Maté |
| ISBN | 0452279631 |
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe the condition as inherited, Dr. Gabor Maté believes that our social and emotional environments play a key role in both the cause of and cure for this condition. In...
Tales of Mystery and Madness
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0689848374 |
A sweet little cat drives a man to insanity and murder.... The grim death known as the plague roams a masquerade ball dressed in red....
A dwarf seeks his final revenge on his captors....
A sister calls to her beloved twin from beyond the grave....
Prepare yourself. You are...
If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways.
| Author | Daniel Quinn |
| ISBN | 1586421263 |
In Ishmael, Daniel Quinn offered new ways of seeing and understanding human history, and our collective future. His message was transformative for millions of people, and Ishmael continues to attract tens of thousands of new readers each year. Subsequent works, such as The Story of B and My Ishmael,...
| Author | John V. Davis |
| ISBN | 1570624062 |
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The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices
| Author | Claude Lecouteux |
| ISBN | 1620551055 |
Examines how the ancient customs of constructing and keeping a house formed a sacred bond between homes and their inhabitants
• Shares many tales of house spirits, from cajoling the local land spirit into becoming one’s house spirit to the good and bad luck bestowed by mischievous house...
